i've lost count of the number of linkedin profiles of friends and university peers whose sentences sound clumsy and use complex words they don't quite understand, which creates a bad impression. yes, this includes people with firsts from RG universities in respected subjects.

this in a document that you can spend as long as you want on!

anyone have any views on this? i'd say i spot grammatical errors and sentences that should be reformatted in at least 75% of profiles i read!

before anyone says i haven't used capital letters, this isn't my CV! its an informal online forum!

(Original post by woodchuck)
i've lost count of the number of linkedin profiles of friends and university peers whose sentences sound clumsy and use complex words they don't quite understand, which creates a bad impression. yes, this includes people with firsts from RG universities in respected subjects.

this in a document that you can spend as long as you want on!

anyone have any views on this? i'd say i spot grammatical errors and sentences that should be reformatted in at least 75% of profiles i read!

before anyone says i haven't used capital letters, this isn't my CV! its an informal online forum!

If you don't want to apply basic syntax/grammar on your post why are you complaining about people using synonyms for simple words in their Linkin profiles?

This isn't directed as any type of criticism but I always find it quite bizarre that people make effort to write with correct syntax/grammar/punctuation in one forum but not another. Surely, if you able then you would do it universally by habit?

(Original post by Advocatus)
This isn't directed as any type of criticism but I always find it quite bizarre that people make effort to write with correct syntax/grammar/punctuation in one forum but not another. Surely, if you able then you would do it universally by habit?

From experience, in the legal profession, people fall into those who are completely over the top about it in any instance and never turn it off, or those who turn it on and off in the right instances.

I think with the latter it's in part down to the modern world, especially when people are responding quickly to things on small mobile screens and relying on autocorrect. People don't have to care if they know their audience won't either, and so some choose no to.